Spain gets her seventh Michelin Three Star Restaurant

Spain gets her seventh Michelin Three Star Restaurant
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By h.b. - Nov 26, 2009 - 7:46 AM
The new list of winners and losers in Spain was presented in Madrid on Wednesday

Joan Roca, now with three Michelin stars - EFE

Spain now has another Michelin three star restaurant. The Celler Restaurant in Can Roca, Girona, is run by chef Joan Roca.

There are now seven three star restaurants in Spain, and the new list as featured in the Michelin Guide to Spain and Portugal 2010, was presented on Wednesday in the San Miguel Market in Madrid.

The other three star establishments are from Juan Mari Arzak, restaurant Arzak (San Sebastián), Santi Santamaría, restaurant Can Fabes (San Celoni), Ferrán Adriá, restaurant El Bulli (Rosas), Martín Berasategui, restaurant Martín Berasategui (Lasarte), Carme Ruscalleda(Sant Pau) y Pedro Subijana (San Sebastián).

The two star restaurants in Spain are Casa Marcial de Arriondas (Asturias), Lasarte de Barcelona, La terraza del Casino (Madrid), y Les Cols (Olot).

The Tristán restaurant in Portals Nous, (Mallorca) has however lost its second star this year.

Many establishments get their first Michelin star this year - El Etxebarri Axpe (Vizcaya), la Enoteca in the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, A Estación in Cambre (A Coruña), M.B. de Guía in Isora (Tenerife), Bo,Tic, in Corça (Gerona), Julio Fontanar dels Alforíns (Valencia), La Fonda Xesc Gombrèn (Gerona), Cocinandos de León, La Broche, (Madrid), Diverxo (Madrid), Kabuki Wellington (Madrid), Ramón Freixa (Madrid), As Garzas, in Malpica (A Coruña), La Cabaña de la Finca Buenavista (Murcia), Alejandro in Roquetas del Mar (Almería), Torreó in L'India de Xerta (Tarragona).

The following have lost their single stars this year - Kursaal in San Sebastián, The Gallery Arts & Food in Gijón, Lillas Pastia in Huesca, el Chaflán in Madrid, el Solar in Puebla de Santa Cruz De Bezana (Cantabria), Read's, in Santa María del Camí, (Mallorca), la Taberna de Rotilio in Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) and Alejandro del Toro (Valencia).

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